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POETS AND POETRY OF LYNN WOODS

 

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Classic

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Lynn Woods godfather Cyrus Tracy’s “Elegy for Ebeneezer Hawkes,” a tribute to a Lynn Woods naturalist

Cyrus Tracy’s “Mount Gilead Consecration Song,” read at the 1881 Exploring Circle Camp Day ceremony

David Johnson’s “Mount Gilead: The Planting of Memorial Trees,” commemorating a Camp Day devoted to memorializing Cyrus Tracy

Emily Forman’s sonnets about Lynn wildflowers: “Hepatica” and “Golden-rod

   

Modern

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Where At Her Fairest Nature Stands", the climax to Mabel Ward’s “Anniversary Poem,” read at ceremonies celebrating Lynn’s 50th anniversary as a city

Mayor-poet Thomas Porter’s ode “To The Lynn Woods

 

Contemporary

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Tom Sheehan’s deeply personal Lynn Woods poems: “Sleeping Under Pines in Lynn Woods” and “Cold Night Thoughts Beside an Empty Cave in the Lynn Woods

Ray Whittier’s description of “Bird Watching With My Son

Ray Whittier’s commemorative “Fall Camp Day at Lynn Woods,” read at the naming ceremony for Cooke Road

Lyrics to Joe Boyd’s song, “Lost In The Woods,” composed for the Cooke Road naming ceremony
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